Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-07-09
Thc L.uhur O0lnrld.
LABOR AND LABORERS.
News and Notes of Interest TO Both En-
ployer and Employed.
Continued Prosperity in the Various In
dustries Of the Country.
Thc Iahur C0lurld.

among he knights for separate nation
al trade associations. The harness
Ddnakers will want one; the brasswork-
ers have asked for me-; the ironwork-
ers have organized for one; and the
coopers, painters and decorators insist
on separate control. A score of other
crafts are asking for separate room in
the great order where they can talk
things over. The experiments already
made have shown that there is nothing
III the movement OF a d~lsintegrating
character, but that in reality this step
is a cementing one.
New England textile manufacturers
are generally improving their capacity
and putting in better machinery to de
crease cost. A New Hampshire firm
Francisco around Cape Horn on ac-
count of high freights. The Pcpperell
mill, in Maine, has just divided u half
million dollars in dividends, and has Il
million left.
Five national labor unions have Just
I'D their annual sessions the PRINT
Ners at Buffalo, the shoemakers at
Brockton. the ironworkers at Plttsburg,
and the machinery workers and miners
at Cincinnati. There were POO, 900
shoemakers said to be represented
through $50 delegates at Brockton.
The iron workers had $50 delegates.
Fort Worth, Texas, is to be made a
wool and sheep depot with immense
stock yards and securing establish
ments. 1t now costs 81 As to pay the
freight on 100 pounds of grease and
dirt, and this is to be saved by the
securing establishments. Fort Worth
says that she will yet rival Philadel-
phia as Il wool center.
Four railroads are now being built
in Georgia to center at Atlanta. 1t will
then be the greatest railroad center in
the south. These roads will run
through coal, lumber, and agricultural
sections, and already syndicates are
operating along the projected lines, Sc
curing control of the most desirable
lands.
The New York sllversmiths have
surrendered and gone to work. Nearly
all the cabinet-makcrs' shops of New
York have established the nine-hour
system. A new organ (monthly) has
been established in New York 10 repre-
sent the National Federation. The
Furriers' union voted $40 to the Chi
cago anarchists.
a London paper says there is not
one corner of Europe where American
small-cost hardware is not for sale.
Krupp, of Germany; Armstrong. of
England. AMI Hotchkiss, of France,
with all their vast u are unable
to produce a monkey or scrcw-bar
wrench equal to the American
wrenches.
The builders in the small towns all
owe the country are reporting an.in-
creasing demand for small houses. The
building and loan association fever is
spreading in the west. The outflow of
money from sluggish financial locali-
ties in the east is stimulating enter
prise in a great many small channels.
Western cities and towns are deve,-
oping their manufacturing capabilities
rapidly. Denver, Col, is becoming an
important manufacturing center, and
will produce $50, 600, 600 worth Of pro-
ducts this year. Eastern manufacture
ers are pioneering over the west seek
ing opportunities.
The London papers are complaining
that as fast as British workmen leave
their shores the gap is filled up with
German workmen and worknlen from
Russia. They don't want the pauper
labor of the continent .'shot" there.
The. remedy is in the highest degree
The question of employers right to
employ non-union labor will not be sur
rendered without a bitter struggle.
Boston building employers have been
placing themselves in position to open
the fight. The workmen, in anticipa-
ton of trouble, are strengthening their
lines.
Eastern farmers and well-to-do me
chanics are lending, through agencies,
much of their spare cash on Western
mortgages. This exchange ought to
have been built up long ago. Money
commands very low rates Of interes,
east and exceptionally high rates in the
west.
One we'll known make of boiler has
been sold to the extent of 1872 900 horse
power in New York, Pennsylvania and
New Jersey. Great ingenuity and
study are being centered OF boiler
mAlg, and marked improvements
have been completed within a few
months.
An enthusiastic westerner who writes
as though he were posted, says $50
100000 could be safely invested in the
sugar making and growing industry in
the south, and there are excellent OPP
portunities for jute and ramie manu-
featuring.
Tho pnrtborp ipyastorS in southern